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Murchison Meteorite: Witnessing the fall of the most famous space rock video

Created 17/10/2025

Updated 17/10/2025

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In 1969, an explosive shower of meteorites fell outside the town of Murchison in country Victoria. Containing organic material as well as space dust grains older than the solar system, the Murchison Meteorite has become one of the most studied meteorites and a treasure trove for science. Hear about an eye-witness account of its fall to Earth and see samples of the meteorite in the National Mineral and Fossil Collection at Geoscience Australia.

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Title Murchison Meteorite: Witnessing the fall of the most famous space rock video
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/en/dataset/389f406a-2fd3-47e3-b2d1-0feb78cd2c96
Contact Point
Geoscience Australia Data
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Reference Period 26/06/2025
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Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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Data Portal Geoscience Australia

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This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "Murchison Meteorite: Witnessing the fall of the most famous space rock video". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/murchison-meteorite-witnessing-the-fall-of-the-most-famous-space-rock-video